The Dehumanization of Art: And Other Writings on Art and Culture

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Pagina 57The subject of Le rouge et le noir could be told in a few dozen words. What is the
difference between such a report and the novel itself? Certainly not the style. The
crucial point is that when we say: "Madame Renal falls in love with Julien Sorel" ...

Pagina 61The subject of any novel can be told in a few words and in this form holds no
interest. A summary narration is not to our taste; we want the novelist to linger
and to grant us good long looks at his personages, their being, and their
environment ...

Pagina 166In words which, merely from having been worn down, like old coins, are no
longer able to convey their meaning to us with any force, we are accustomed to
calling this process: thinking, meditation. But these expressions hide the most ...